A NECKLACE, a neck-pendant, a collar — and, as a verb, to hang such things on somebody. ⭐ It is the word behind the strangest command in Deuteronomy 15:14: a freed slave must not be sent away empty, and the verb for what you do instead, ha’aneq ta’aniq, is doubled for emphasis and stands in that verse and nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. The picture is of loading a man with goods the way you would hang ornaments round a neck. As a noun it is real and ordinary: the ornaments on the camels’ necks that Gideon takes from the Midianite kings (Judges 8:26), the pendants for your neck that wisdom gives a son (Proverbs 1:9), the single bead of a necklace in Song of Solomon 4:9. The only other verbal form of the root is Psalm 73:6, where pride is worn round the necks of the wicked like a collar. ⚠ The shelf renders the Deuteronomy verb by its effect and loses the image: ‘furnish him liberally’ (KJV, ASV), ‘give him a liberal reward’ (Geneva), ‘equip him’ (NWT 1984), ‘supply them liberally’ (NIV). ⚠ Not to be confused with the ANAKIM, the giants of Deuteronomy 9:2 and the Joshua conquest chapters, whose name is written with the same three letters; whether the two are related is a guess, and this library does not make it. → first discussed at Deut 15:14